Sydney F. Martin’s collection of colonial American tokens, coinage and medals was so vast that after his passing in January 2021, Stack’s Bowers Galleries has required several years of cataloging to present everything at auction. Three major live auctions and a few online sales have taken place already, and there will be another auction closing later in June. Martin had over 30,000 individual items in his collection and every one of them served a purpose, particularly in writing his four major reference works.
From the excellent biography presented on Stack’s Bowers Galleries website, we learn that Martin, “was best known in the numismatic community was published in 2007, followed by in 2011, in 2015, and [for Ireland and New Jersey] in 2018. His in 1932 was published posthumously by the ANS in 2021.”
